Vital Development
Body exploration, awareness and expression of emotions
Saturday, 6th May
Workshop and Talk: 14:15 - 17:15
Leader: Marcelo Di Matteo
Schedule:
- Brief Introductory talk by Dr Nicola Diamond and Marcelo Di Matteo
- Vital Development workshop
- Brief closure talk
I will be looking at the relation between vital Development -attachment and the body. I will consider affect regulation, the relation between positive affective states and reorganising internal working models. How the use of movement can mobilise procedural memory and can touch the parts that the 'talking cure' fails to reach. It has been increasingly recognised in recent developments in attachment and neurobiology that right brain processing and embodied experience has to be reworked for therapeutic change to take place, how thought and reflection on its own is simply not enough.
An issue, I wish to raise, is the challenge faced when working with traumatised patients, who may have a very uncomfortable relation with their body and have great difficulty accessing positive affective attachment experiences. In what ways may this alter the way we work with the body, when positive attachment experiences cannot be readily accessed and engaged with?
I will also place importance on a reflective dialogue accompanying a body based workshop.
Dr Nicola Diamond, PhD, BPC reg